We’ve mentioned Jerry Buhlmann a couple of times recently in stories about Dentsu Aegis Network, now its former CEO has surfaced as non-executive chairman of digital marketing agency Croud. Buhlmann (below) is one of a number of investors in a ...
Read More »Jerry Buhlmann lands golden goodbye from Dentsu
Didn’t he do well? Campaign reports that a Dentsu Aegis Network director, thought to be former CEO Jerry Buhlmann, collected £11.1m in 2018, including £5.3m “compensation for loss of office.” Does this mean Jerry didn’t want to go? Anyway, he’ll ...
Read More »Grey and Carat scoop Ad Age’s 2014 gongs
WPP’s Grey is Ad Age’s Agency of 2014 (by which they presumably mean 2013, they wouldn’t give a prize for the best agency in January surely?) with Mullen in second place. Carat won the media agency gong. Well Grey, under ...
Read More »Fujitsu global boosts Mcgarrybowen and Aegis combo
Dentsu-owned Mcgarrybowen and Carat Enterprise (the business to business bit of Carat) have won the ad account for Japan’s Fujitsu, the one-time big hardware maker now trying to re-invent itself as comms technology company. Which is what you’d expect, given ...
Read More »Top Aegis exec Nigel Sharrocks steps down following Dentsu sale
One of UK medialand’s best-known execs Nigel Sharrocks is stepping down following the completion of the £3.2bn sale of Aegis Media to Japan’s Dentsu. Sharrocks (left), 56, was CEO of Aegis Media global brands, one of those rather mystifying titles ...
Read More »Leading UK media shop the7stars set to join exodus to new outdoor contender Talon
Former Kinetic worldwide boss Eric Newnham (left) is shaking up the UK out of home buying industry in a way it hasn’t seen for years: now leading UK media independent the7stars is set to join the rush to Newnham’s new ...
Read More »The big winners of 2012: Wieden+Kennedy London, Samsung/72andSunny and the Guardian/BBH
OK, here we go: after a not very scientific analysis of the ruminations of Paul Simons, Giles Keeble, Jerry Judge, George Parker, Stuart Smith and myself we come to: Agency of the Year Wieden+Kennedy London. For lots of good stuff, ...
Read More »My pick of 2012: Follow the Frog, Wieden+Kennedy and Jerry Buhlmann
All right, league tables of achievement are as commonplace as turkeys right now. Why burden you with another one? Well, I’ve been asked to – by the good folk at More About Advertising. So: Ad of the Year. Yes, I ...
Read More »Returning ‘revenue’ boss Peter Huijboom may be a contender for the top job at Dentsu-owned Aegis
Former Synovate CEO Peter Huijboom (left) is returning to Aegis as its first ‘global director of business integration,’ charged with identifying ‘revenue synergies’ between Aegis and new owner Dentsu, which bought the media buying network for £3.2bn earlier this year. ...
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